Verse:Irta/Music
Tsarfati music
Cantillation
Liturgy uses diatonic modes:
- Torah readings use Dorian
- Haftarot use Aeolian
- Non-Eicha Megillot use Mixolydian
- Eicha uses Locrian or Phrygian depending on community
- Some blessings and prayers use Lydian
Todo: Cantillation tropes
Folk music
Tsarfati Jewish folk songs are known as טאָנאן donăn in Ăn Yidiș (singular טאָן don; cognate to Irish dán 'poem (among other meanings)'). They may be in Ăn Yidiș or in a macaronic mixture of Ăn Yidiș, Hebrew, and other languages. They have some traditional Hivantish and Irish elements but are unique (for example the use of the Locrian mode).